Božena Němcová Museum in Česká Skalice

An exposure represents a life and a work of a major Czech writer Božena Němcová famed mainly thank her novel The Grandmother.

An original Municipal Museum was founded in 1902. It collected and maintained mostly local relics: weapons, archival document, ethnographic collections, archaeological records and other local history collections. After purchasing an inheritance of Božena Němcová from her daughter Bohdana in 1919, the interest of the museum was focused more on the personality and the work of the great woman. In 1931, the first Czech Literature Museum - Museum of Božena Němcová - was opened in the old Town Hall. In 1962 it moved to a newly renovated building of Steidler´s Inn. The exposure gets closer the life and the work of Božena Němcová through an extensive video and photographic documentation, an extensive range of books, lots of original documents and personal things.
In a park in front of the museum there is placed a bronze statue of seventeen-year Barunka Panklová-Němcová.

A part of the museum makes an exposure in an old wooden school – Barunka´s school - which was also opened to the public in 1962. Barbara Panklová, which later became the largest Czech writer Božena Němcová, attended this timbered school in Česká Skalice in 1824-1833. The original school has been preserved only partially. In today's complex of Barunka´s school, which was built between 1972 - 1981, you can see a classroom and a flat of a teacher from early 19th century, as described Božena Němcová in her story The Mr. teacher.
The museum also offers a permanent exhibition of history of wars, above all the battle of Česká Skalice in 1866, when Austrian and Prussian troops were battled.

The museum still manages The Nature Trail Grandmother's Valley, which leads from Barunka´s school to Ratibořice sights.